PTA grants annual incentive package for tutors

Apam, May 30, GNA - The Parent Teacher Association (PTA) of the Apam Secondary School (APASS), has granted an annual incentive of one million cedis each to all tutors in the school.

Mr Emmanuel Ignatius Addae, Chairman of the PTA announced the package at the inauguration of a 24-seater KVIP and streetlights provided by the Association at a cost of about 235 million cedis. Mr Addae said the incentive package was to motivate the teachers to work harder and said the last academic year's package had been paid to the tutors.

"The challenge is now for them to deliver the goods for us" he stated, reminding the tutors that no one would to invest in a venture, which would not yield dividends. He said the PTA executives who had been in office for only 15 months had also embarked on the construction of a fence wall and another KVIP on which 70 million cedis and 20 million cedis respectively has been spent so far.

The PTA Chairman said 300 plastic chairs had been bought for the school and the sick bay had been stocked with drugs with arrangement at an advanced stage to engage a nurse to man it.

He said the PTA has supported the school with cash to rehabilitate a broken down truck.

Mr Addae said since the PTA alone could not provide the needs of the school it had collaborated with the school's old students association and commended the members for providing new benches and tables for the dining hall. He said with this collaboration, the school would soon be given the facelift it required.

Mr Archibold Kobena Fuah, Headmaster, said the school has painted dormitories, dinning hall and classrooms and provided additional desks for the students.

He said teaching and learning of science had been given a boost as more science equipment had been procured and the tutors were being encouraged to device all means to entice the students to learn. The headmaster was grateful to the PTA and the old students association for their valuable services to the school. Mr Fred Addae, Gomoa District Co-ordinating Director, who cut the tape to inaugurate the projects, said the time had come for parents to contribute meaningfully to the development of schools their children were attending.